At just 16 years old, Sant Dnyaneshwar composed this masterpiece in the town of . During a time when spiritual texts were locked behind the complex Sanskrit language, Dnyaneshwar used the Ovi meter—a rhythmic form traditionally used in women's folk songs—to translate the Gita’s 700 verses into nearly 9,000 verses of poetic Marathi.
For those interested in reading Dnyaneshwari in Marathi, there are several online resources that offer the text in PDF format. Here are a few options: dnyaneshwari marathi pdf